April 2014: Editor’s Letter

Gentlemen,

History's great wordsmiths are at odds about spring. Hemingway tells us spring days have no limits, so long as you "keep from making engagements." But Tolstoy says the season is specially suited for "plans and projects." (We won’t even touch T.S. Eliot’s whole “cruelest month” thing. April is indisputably a pretty nice month.)

Our take on making plans versus letting the day get away from us? Split the difference (with a little help from your Google calendar, of course). As cabin fever thaws and the air starts buzzing with possibility, draw up a detailed plan—just be prepared to chuck it out the window at a moment's notice.